The Roleplaying Exchange Podcast

Actual Play - Star Trek: Mercury - Ep 11 Family Secret

After returning from the mirror universe, the Mercury is immediately docked at star base.  As specialists examine to warp core to ensure that such an accident never occurs again, Ensign Platt is given leave to attend his aunt’s third marriage. Intrigued with the opportunity to experience Andorian culture, Dr. Maro tags along to partake of the festivities and perhaps solve a murder.

 

Joe - GM

Birk- Lenara Maro – Trill medical officer

Aaron Carsten – Ensign Platt – Denobulan engineer.

 

Actual Play – Magical Fury / Delta Green – Twilight Tales EP 2

Note: Reposting this episode due to the original being cut short due to technical difficulties.  Consider this the Synder Cut.  If you have listened to the previous version please feel free to skip ahead to the 3hr and 27 minute mark to continue where the recording cut out.

With that said, this was a super fun game to play.  I think the best description of the session was from Crazon, who said it like Sailor Moon meets Doom.  Also in this follow-up scenario, we are using Delta Green rules to portray a shadowy organization covering up the existence of magical girls.

Following the tragedy at the Sakura Festival, Project Twilight is activated to keep the public ignorant. As four agents attempt to cover-up the events that happened at the theater, they discover that although one battle may have ended, another one is just beginning.

Ian – GM

Aaron S – Jeral M – Analyst 

Adam – Fred W. – Federal Agent

Chris – Michael S – City Worker

Darth – Cmd. Kenji Y. – Soldier

Episode 57 - Opportunities For Player Buy-In

While is important for a game master to have clear objectives when plotting out a campaign, it is also equally important to allow players the opportunity to fill in the gaps with content based on their decisions.  In what could be called an ‘organic’ episode (we started talking till a topic developed) Adam, Crazon, David and Rob discuss how to establish player buy-in.

Note:  Contrary to what the background noise might suggest, we did not record this episode in a Chuck E. Cheese.

Music: Ketsa - Love Heart

Actual Play - Magical Fury - Magical Twilight Tales EP 1

Forces from the Kingdom of Gehenna have infiltrated the city of San Franoyoko.  As the annual Cherry Blossom festival draws near, it is up to the magical girl group The Champions of The Emotional Prism to uncover their nefarious plans and save the city.

Ian - GM

Aaron – Samantha/Twilight Legend Morrigan 

Adam - Sarah/ Lovely Princess Googly 

Crazon _Renae/ Luminous Power Maiden Kijo  

 

Actual Play - RuneQuest - The Devil's Marsh

When the Chieftain’s son does not return from his rite of passage quest in the Devil’s Marsh, brothers Baldun and Tag are tasked with uncovering the youth’s fate.

 

Joe - GM

Adam – Tagh – Hunter

Ethan – Baldun – Warrior

Episode 56 - Blue Planet: Recontact

Recently, game designer Jeff Barber, creator of Blue Plant and Upwind, stopped by to discuss his latest project currently Kickstarting, Blue Planet: Recontact.  During this interview Jeff talks about changes to the Blue Planet world and system, as well as the current Kickstarter campaign.

 

Blue Planet: Recontact's Kickstarter campaign is currently underway.  

The Blue Planet: Recontact free quickstart guide is available on DriveThru.

Actual Play - Blue Planet Recontact - A Day at the Beach

The crew of Red Sky Charters have recently been hired by Biogene executive Everett Whitegate III to lead him and his team on a weeklong survival/team building retreat in the outback of Poseidon. A thousand klicks away from civilization, everything appeared to be going fine, that is until the sabotage began.

Adam – Drew Latamir – Ex-Geo Pilot turned Poseidon pilot.

Brownie – Digger Jones – Mechanic, local guide

Chris – Maggie Merriweather – Geo Warden, Sylva hybrid

Joe – Phillip Sanchez – Local Guide, Insurgent Sympathizer

Blue Planet: Recontact is currently being Kickstarted (4/6/21 -5/6/21) .  We had a blast playing this game and you will too.  Head on over and back it today!

 

Actual Play - Call of Cthulhu - Reign of Terror - Episode 6

Following the advice of the Ghoul That Was Guillaume, the investigators sacrificed one of their own for a chance to strike down Citizen Rigault.  At the moment of the condemned investigator’s death at the guillotine, the madman will be vulnerable.   As the crowds gather about to witness the executions, the remaining investigators stage one final desperate act to save Paris.

 

Ian – Keeper

Adam – Michel Beaumains – Soldier

Ethan – Thierry Renault – Sergeant

Joe – Etienne Babin – Soldier

Vince – Joseph Hugel – Provisioner

Actual Play - Call of Cthulhu - Reign of Terror - Episode 5

Pitted against an even greater threat to Paris and all of France in the form of Doctor now Citizen Rigault, the investigators decide to take the initiative.  If they hope to uncover some means to Rigault's undoing, they must first venture into the lair of the madman.

Ian – Keeper

Adam – Michel Beaumains – Soldier

Ethan – Thierry Renault – Sergeant

Joe – Christophe Pressi – Soldier

Vince – Joseph Hugel – Provisioner

Actual Play - Call of Cthulhu - Reign of Terror - EP4

Paris, 1794.
It has been five years since the raid on Comte Fenalik’s manor, and a lot has changed in France.  The investigators find themselves once again working in the Paris catacombs where they will meet an even greater threat and an otherworldly ally.

Ian – Keeper
Adam – Michel Beaumains – Soldier
Ethan – Thierry Renault – Sergeant
Joe – Christophe Pressi – Soldier
Vince – Joseph Hugel – Provisioner